Does a post-skin biopsy wound normally look disgusting?

my husband had a skin biopsy (a scrape) on thursday of a small mole right where his back bends. He bled through 2 shirts and a jacket on the way home. The Dr. said no stitches were needed. Yesterday it bled, overnight it bled through clothes again. Today when I cleaned it out I noticed it's very swollen and pink around the edges (it's an eye-shaped crater in the skin), some of the new cells are growing in so it's a little yellow in the corner, but some of it looks blackish-green. I don't know if that's dried blood or an infection. It just looks horrible. But it doesn't smell. I was shocked when I opened the bandage the first day...but i've never seen this before.


So, is this normal for it to be such a gross open wound? Should she have stitched it?

Does a post-skin biopsy wound normally look disgusting?
Well, in that area where there is a lot of movement, one may have cut it out and stitched it, but usually with a scraping this maybe not necessary.





It is hard to get a decent pressure bandage over a scraping in the area you describe. The wound will heal, it will get little spots of fleshy growth over the area that will join together in time to form new skin. If it becomes painful (more painful) there may be infection, but usually lots of blood 'washes' away bugs.





So clean firm dressings, and if pain redness or other problems go back and get it checked.
Reply:Get a new Doctor, the one that did that is a Quack. The lesion should have been completely removed and the resulting incision would have been completely stitched closed. End of story.